Liturgy for Divine Mercy Sunday

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Hello,
Can you please help me out? I was wondering if the scripture readings we have for Divine Mercy Sunday have always been those same readings in the last several hundred years, or have they been chosen in just the last several years since Divine Mercy Sunday has come about? Thanks for your help.
 
The theme has always been A) mercy and B) teaching the newly baptized about the Sacraments.

Divine Mercy Sunday used to be called “Quasimodo Sunday”, because the antiphon said that the newly baptized were being taught “almost like newborn infants” (quasimodo geniti infantes) with gentle and palatable mother’s milk.
 
The Gospel (John 20:19-31) for the First Sunday after Easter/Second Sunday of Easter/Divine Mercy Sunday has been the same for hundreds of years (since the 1570s, I think, source).

Prior to the liturgical reforms of Vatican II (1970, I think), 1 John 5:4-10 was read every year along with the Gospel. Since the liturgical changes of Vatican II, 1 John 5:1-6 is still read in Year B as the Second Reading, along with the First Reading, Acts 4:32-35. However, in Year A and Year C, there are different First and Second Readings. In Year A, they are Acts 2:42-47 and 1 Peter 1:3-9; in Year C, they are Acts 5:12-16 and Revelation 19:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19.

The post-Vatican II readings did not change when the Second Sunday of Easter was designated Divine Mercy Sunday.
 
marypazzi said:
Hello,
Can you please help me out? I was wondering if the scripture readings we have for Divine Mercy Sunday have always been those same readings in the last several hundred years, or have they been chosen in just the last several years since Divine Mercy Sunday has come about? Thanks for your help.
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the readings are those for the second Sunday of Easter, year A, from the revised lectionary introduced in the 1970s. there were no special or additional readings ordered when this Sunday was also named Divine Mercy Sunday by Pope John Paul II. Also the chaplet and any other observance are not during the Mass, but generally in the afternoon or evening, outside of Mass.
 
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